Category: Crime and Judiciary

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called for the released of students kidnapped by terrorists group last week in Nigeria. The raid hit St. Mary’s Private Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in Papiri, Niger State, on Friday. However, 50 students have reportedly escaped and reunited with their families, but over 260 remain held as authorities deploy...

A gunman who killed a Florida deputy last week died on Saturday from injuries received in the confrontation, authorities say. Michael Halberstam, 37, shot two Indian River County deputies and a locksmith on Friday when they were serving an eviction notice at a home near Vero Beach where Halberstam’s mother was trying to evict him,...

BREAKING NEWS: Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has reportedly survived an assassination attempt early this morning, just days after handing down the life-sentence to Nnamdi Kanu. He was immediately rushed to a hospital as security forces scrambled to secure the area. A source said, “This is an outrage. A judge...

 A former University of Virginia student was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for fatally shooting three football players and wounding two other students on the campus in 2022. Judge Cheryl Higgins gave Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr., who had been on the football team, the maximum possible sentence after listening to five days of testimony. Jones pleaded...

Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the preemptive arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday, with a judge claiming he was intent on escaping just days before he was set to begin his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt. The 70-year-old politician was taken to the headquarters of the country’s federal police in the capital, Brasilia,...

 Abortion is again illegal in North Dakota after the state’s Supreme Court on Friday couldn’t muster the required majority to uphold a judge’s ruling that struck down the state’s ban last year. The law makes it a felony crime for anyone to perform an abortion, though it specifically protects patients from prosecution. Doctors could be prosecuted...

The daughter of former U.S. intelligence director John Negroponte was convicted Thursday for a second time in the fatal stabbing of a friend after a drunken argument at a Maryland home, prosecutors announced. Sophia Negroponte, 32, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty of second-degree murder in the 2020 death of 24-year-old Yousuf Rasmussen, according to...

Bandits who abducted about 35 worshippers from the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) in the Eruku community, Ekiti LGA of Kwara, have reportedly demanded N100 million ransom for each victim. According to reports, multiple family sources and community leaders confirmed on Thursday that the kidnappers have established contact with relatives using the phones of the victims abducted...

Terrorists have abducted students and staff from St. Mary’s School, a Catholic institution in Papiri community, Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State, abducting an unspecified number of students and teachers. According to reports, Ahmed Abdullahi Rofia, the Head of Disaster and Relief for Agwara Local Government, who confirmed the incident, alongside Bello Gidi, media...